SciFi Saturday News – Toilet Problems In Space, Supermassive Black Holes And Is Star Wars SciFi?
Here is the round up of the SciFi stories that inspired me this week
Supermassive Black Hole Swallows Star
Nothing says SciFi to me like black holes. (grins)
“A team of scientists has witnessed a supermassive black hole swallowing a star and spitting out a “jet” of matter.”
Toilet Problems In Space
Dark is in but your SciFi romance is a little too grim for your liking. Nothing lightens the mood like potty humor.
Mika McKinnon shares the story of a real life toilet malfunction.
“If that’s not bad enough to have the suction of pure space applied to the most delicate of regions, a sadistic quirk of spacecraft design means that all fresh air for the shuttle enters through the roof of the bathroom. Extremely cold, barely-heated-above-liquid fresh air rushed down on Gregory as the depressurization klaxon rang out, waking all his companions.”
More Awesome Photos From Space
Wired shared yet more inspiring space photos this week
Including this photo of galaxy M82.
Not A UFO
Sorry, folks. That light in astronaut Scott Kelly’s photo wasn’t a UFO.
“That’s one explanation. Another one—admittedly a bit more prosaic—is that the “UFO” is a reflection off the space station window. Even likelier is that it’s an overhanging piece of the station itself that happened to catch a bit of light. The ISS is larger than a football field, with solar wings, experimental platforms and habitation pods hanging off of it in all directions. It’s actually not all that easy to get a clear shot without some piece of hardware getting in the way”
Is Star Wars SciFi?
I love hearing from writers, about their view on the worlds they create.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens writer, Lawrence Kasdan, shares
“Star Wars is its own genre. It’s not really science fiction. It’s really something on its own, fantasy and myth and science fiction and Flash Gordon and Akira Kurosawa all mixed up together…. It can be anything you want it to be.”
What has inspired you this week?
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Vapor is the most advanced cyborg the Humanoid Alliance has ever developed. He’s a finely honed weapon, a warrior without parallel, half man and half machine. No lock can contain him. No being can stop him. Whatever he wants, he takes.
He wants Mira Breazeal, the Designer’s daughter.
She’s his one temptation, his sexy target. Vapor shouldn’t crave her caresses, steal her kisses, make her scream with ecstasy. The cyborgs want her dead and they would question his loyalty if he didn’t kill her. The humans would shoot him on sight if he dared to touch her.
Their love is forbidden. Their desire could be lethal. One human and one cyborg will risk everything for a moment of passion.
Buy Now:
Amazon US: http://www.amazon.com/Breathing-Vapor-Cyborg-Sizzle-Book-ebook/dp/B015UN87JC/
Amazon UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Breathing-Vapor-Cyborg-Sizzle-Book-ebook/dp/B015UN87JC/
ARe: https://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-breathingvapor-1897324-340.html
B&N: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/breathing-vapor-cynthia-sax/1122718203
Kobo: https://store.kobobooks.com/en-ca/ebook/breathing-vapor
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New Review For Warlord’s Mercy
Carla at RomFan Reviews shares
“Like the other books in the Barbarian Claims series, this book is hot! The sex scenes leave you panting, and the super-hot alpha males make you drool a little.”
Read the full review here
http://www.romfanreview.com/2013/11/review-warlords-mercy-by-cynthia-sax.html?zx=900d685ce8148847
By Cynthia Sax
Buy Now From Ellora’s Cave
Tolui, a clone of a powerful Warlord, is a male without a homeland or a future. Doomed to never mate, he ruthlessly wages war, seeking to give his clone brothers a planet system to call their own, a place where they can live without persecution.
When Tolui crashes on a deserted planet and meets a small human female, he discovers everything he knows about clones is a lie. Lea, his destined mate, frees the passion he’s suppressed over his lifetime. He wants her. He needs her. He’ll do anything to bond with her.
But he won’t share her. Tolui’s greatest battle will be the fight for Lea’s heart. To win her love, he’ll face hundreds of his clone brothers, men who look exactly like him.
Buy Now From: http://www.ellorascave.com/warlord-s-mercy.html
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Wayback Wednesday – Assassin Mine
I REALLY love Darius, the assassin hero in Assassin Mine (which many readers jokingly refer to as Ass-Ass-In Mine). This is story 4 in the Mission Menage SciFi erotic romance series (The stories being Mission Menage, Savage Menage, Unleashed Menage, Assassin Mine, and Menage Lost) and is the only non-menage in the series. If you start with this story, all you really need to know is that the Balazoids and the Federation are at war. The Balazoids use women as sex slaves, using them only to breed with.
By Cynthia Sax
Now Available From Ellora’s Cave
Darius, a Balazoid assassin, lives a solitary life structured by rigid rules. Nothing is more forbidden than his sexual attraction to Sabria, a sultry human female. Yet she’s all he thinks about. One kiss, one touch, one heart-stopping encounter in a darkened alleyway isn’t enough to satisfy his unnatural obsession. Breaking every rule on both of their planets, Darius captures Sabria and takes her for his breeder.
Sabria takes one look at Darius and she knows she’ll have him…multiple times, in all sorts of positions. She’ll voyage to the end of the known universes to prove she’s the only breeder he’ll ever desire, blazing his notions of how a female should behave.
Because the only force fiercer than a Balazoid assassin is a woman’s lust.
Buy Now: http://www.ellorascave.com/assassin-mine.html
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Buy Now on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Assassin-Mine-Operation-Erotic-ebook/dp/B0091VFAQ8
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Collectors In Space
I’m at Musings by Wink today talking about Warlord Unarmed and collectors in space. (grins)
http://winkgirls.blogspot.com.au/2013/05/collectors-in-space-warlord-unarmed.html
When Murad, a powerful and deadly Warlord, arrives to repair Gale’s beloved ship, she doesn’t like it one bit. She sees the danger lurking behind his wide, sexy smile and the temptation in his coarse touch. He stands too close. He smells too good. He muddles her mind with erotic thoughts no bounty hunter should ever entertain.
Murad is known for being lighthearted…until he meets Gale. He’s deadly serious about seducing his curvaceous bounty hunter. With one blast of her stun gun, she captures his attention, and starts his lust burning. To claim Gale for his mate, Murad will brave his cautious female’s itchy trigger finger, his overbearing older brother and Gale’s sense of duty.
Buy It Now At: http://www.ellorascave.com/warlord-unarmed.html
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Hump Day Humps – Skies On Fire Excerpt
“Leave or die.” Reisen issued the ultimatum, knowing what their response would be, and he widened his stance, bracing his feet on the tiled floor.
Blood pumped through his veins, his beast wild from the battle and aroused by his mate, his savage emotions accentuated by something else, something lingering in the air — old and alien and primal.
“They’re… they’re beyond reason.” Jayla panted behind him. Skin rubbed against skin and a gust of feminine musk hit his nostrils.
“You’ve also been infected.” He groaned, his nose twitching, his beast’s attention diverted by his mate’s readiness to bond.
“Don’t worry about — Reisen!”
He spun, pivoting on his heels as the Vladiums surged forward in a synchronized attack. Reisen blazed them mercilessly with orange flames, releasing all of the fire and fury burning inside him.
Their skin blistered and popped. Their hair burned. The sweet aroma of charred flesh and vengeance filled Reisen’s nostrils.
The Vladiums screamed and flung their bodies backward, out of range. They rolled on the floor, dousing the flames, leaving patches of flesh on the metal tile.
“Mercy,” Jayla whispered, and the scent of her arousal increased.
“She belongs to me.” He snapped his teeth at the wounded Vladiums, his beast hungry for more fighting, his rational side giving them one more opportunity to concede defeat.
The Vladiums lunged to their feet, acting more like animals than humanoids, their eyes narrowed to slits, and their flesh hanging off their wide shoulders.
Inside Reisen, his drache paced with excitement, eager for the kill, viewing them as wounded prey.
“Our female.” The three half-dead males flew at him, sealing their fate.
Reisen swiped his deadly claws through flesh and sinew, cutting to the bone, the tang of blood filling the space and coloring his tips crimson.
The males staggered backward, clutching their chests with blood-soaked fingers, their eyes wide with disbelief. “Ours,” the largest male muttered, red dripping from his lips. They sank to their knees and fell face forward, one by one.
“My mate.” Reisen tilted his head back and roared his claim, his shoulders vibrating with the effort. His body pulsed with triumph, with need. He had fought for and won his mate, and now he would claim her.
He turned and met Jayla’s gaze, her unclothed form and open admiration pleasing his beast.
“Mercy,” Jayla repeated, staring at the magnificent naked male looming above her. Reisen’s eyes blazed with fire, flames flickering in the blackness of space. Blue scales covered firm muscle. Claws extended from his fingers. A lock of dark hair fell rakishly over his forehead.
The normally reserved, rigidly controlled bodyguard had shown her his wild side, acting more primitive and savage than her deadliest plants. He had protected her, killed for her, and that excited Jayla, thrilled her.
Buy Skies On Fire: http://www.changelingpress.com/product.php?&upt=book&ubid=2027
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Great Review For Skies On Fire!
Woot! First review for Skies On Fire!
Bad Barb shares “Cynthia Sax takes readers on a sexy hot romp through space that they will not be able to stop reading until the last hot scene.”
Read the full review here
http://badbarbsplace.wordpress.com/2013/04/23/review-hot-skies-by-cynthia-sax/
By Cynthia Sax
Now Available From Changeling Press
Jayla, the ship’s botanist, would never ask Reisen to turn his back on duty, not even to save her life. During an attack on her laboratory, all she asks of the impressively large male is that he take care of her beloved plants should she die… and that he remember the one stolen kiss they shared in a darkened alcove.
Reisen will never forget that kiss. Jayla is his mate, the sole being he is meant to spend his life with, and if she dies, his dreams will die with her. But he is honor-bound to protect his captain, and a Dracheon warrior never breaks his vows.
Buy It Now: http://www.changelingpress.com/product.php?&upt=book&ubid=2027
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Skies On Fire Releases
Skies On Fire releases today! This is the third installment in the fabulous Operation Bliss series (the first two installments were written by the wonderful Ashlynn Monroe ).
The hero in Skies On Fire is dragon like but he isn’t a dragon shifter. He doesn’t fully shift. However, I do share some of fun ‘science’ behind dragon shifters.
Lieutenant Reisen, a grim Dracheon warrior, would die for honor and duty. He has sworn to protect the captain of the Bliss. When an alien attacks the ship, seeking to harm the captain, Reisen maintains his post by her side, ready to defend her with his life.
Jayla, the ship’s botanist, would never ask Reisen to turn his back on duty, not even to save her life. During an attack on her laboratory, all she asks of the impressively large male is that he take care of her beloved plants should she die… and that he remember the one stolen kiss they shared in a darkened alcove.
Reisen will never forget that kiss. Jayla is his mate, the sole being he is meant to spend his life with, and if she dies, his dreams will die with her. But he is honor-bound to protect his captain, and a Dracheon warrior never breaks his vows.
Buy It Now: http://www.changelingpress.com/product.php?&upt=book&ubid=2027
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Cover Reveal For Skies On Fire!
I have a cover for Skies On Fire!
Bryan designed this cover.
Isn’t it gorgeous?
(if images are turned off, please click on the link)
Skies On Fire is the third story in the Operation Bliss series.
The first two stories (Dr. Feel Good and Sexual Healing ) were written by the always wonderful Ashlynn Monroe. They’re AWESOME! READ them!!!
Lieutenant Reisen, a grim Dracheon warrior, would die for honor and duty. He has sworn to protect the captain of the Bliss. When an alien attacks the ship, seeking to harm the captain, Reisen maintains his post by her side, ready to defend her with his life.
Jayla, the ship’s botanist, would never ask Reisen to turn his back on duty, not even to save her life. During an attack on her laboratory, all she asks of the impressively large male is that he take care of her beloved plants should she die… and that he remember the one stolen kiss they shared in a darkened alcove.
Reisen will never forget that kiss. Jayla is his mate, the sole being he is meant to spend his life with, and if she dies, his dreams will die with her. But he is honor-bound to protect his captain, and a Dracheon warrior never breaks his vows.
Buy It Soon: http://www.changelingpress.com/product.php?&upt=book&ubid=2027
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Sci-Fi Or Paranormal Romance? + Contest
I’m at the ARe blog today
http://www.arecafe.com/cafe-news/scifi-or-paranormal-romance-which-genre-is-for-you/
talking about some of the (reader) differences between SciFi and Paranormal Romance (as I’m one of those rare creatures who write and read both).
I’m also giving away a copy of Warlord’s Bounty. I don’t normally give away copies of new releases or heck, any releases, as I write a lot of freebie extra scenes and flash fiction but a dear reading buddy requested I give away a copy of Warlord’s Bounty and I couldn’t say no.
By Cynthia Sax
Now Available From Ellora’s Cave
The bigger the bounty, the more dangerous the fugitive.
Khan, a Chamele warlord, has a huge bounty on his head. His enemy is willing to pay an outrageous amount to secure him. Khan wants to be apprehended, especially if the bounty hunter capturing him is a brown-eyed female with razor-sharp daggers and an even sharper tongue. He’ll allow her to subdue him sexually, his passion and prowess not inhibited by restraints, and when she collects her bounty, he’ll collect his revenge, killing his enemy and claiming his little bounty hunter forever.
Zeta doesn’t do forever. She captures the worst scum in the galaxy and trades them for credits. Khan is fierce and sexy and the most dominant male she has ever encountered, but he is also a fugitive, and once she sates herself with his body, she’ll betray him. It is her job.
Buy It Now At: http://www.ellorascave.com/warlord-s-bounty.html
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Buy It Now on ARe: https://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-warlord039sbounty-1025975-144.html
Buy It Now on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AO5CWVG
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